TY - BOOK ID - 1427286 TI - Preferred argument structure AU - Du Bois, John W AU - Kumpf, Lorraine Edith AU - Ashby, William J PY - 2003 VL - 14 SN - 9027226245 1588113698 9786612160905 1282160907 9027296138 9789027296139 9781588113696 9781282160903 661216090X PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - Grammaire comparée et générale KW - Grammaire générale KW - Grammaire générale et comparée KW - Grammaire philosophique KW - Grammaire universelle KW - Grammar [Comparative and general ] KW - Spraakkunst [Vergelijkende en algemene ] KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Linguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1427286 AB - Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodology to reveal more subtle aspects of the patterns, for example, to look across languages, diachronically or synchronically, to examine particular grammatical relations, and to examine special populations or particular genres. This volume will appeal to linguists interested in the relationship of pragmatics and grammar generally, in the typology of grammatical relations, and in explanations derived from data- and corpus-based approaches to analysis. ER -